What did Nehru Incarnate as?

This one is really funny. And a bit sad. My friend Anup in Australia sent me the link to an article, Prabhupada And Nehru’s Incarnation, from the Prabhupada Hare Krishna News Network.

The setting is in Brooklyn, New York, a few weeks after Nehru’s death in 1964. Someone asks the guru Prabhupada what he thought became of Nehru after his death. The writer of the article recounts Prabhupada’s answer. Read on.

The question was a loaded one, I thought. In fact, I had the misgiving that Prabhupada might refuse to answer. But then, I was wrong. I had not yet known Prabhupada so well. He was undaunted by any question and his reply came forth instantly. Quite clearly Prabhupada knew Nehru like the palm of his hand; it was us who knew so little of the man, thanks to all the well executed suppression of details of Nehru’s private and personal life by the GoI and the Indian media. For instance, even today, some half a century after Nehru and his family took over the reins of Indian government, we do not know who indeed was Indira’s father-in-law!

Prabhupada started his discourse. He said that Nehru was re-born almost immediately after his death, a thing that happens only to the most sinful people. He did not even have a short-lived taste of heaven before he was born again. What was worse, is that Nehru was born this time in the form of a dog. He was a dog in a small town of Sweden. His master had another dog before the dog-Nehru was acquired by him and so the dog-Nehru had to share the love of his master with another dog.

Prabhupada explained that to be born as a dog, after having been born as a Kashmiri Brahmin in India, is a big fall. It indicated that Nehru had led a vile life, a very vile life, during his existence as a man in India. Also, Nehru’s hatred for anything vaishnava did not make things any easier for him.

That Nehru was a meat-eater, specially beef-eater, a regular wine-drinker, made things even worse for him. On top of that, Nehru was (a fact which we did not know then and learnt later, much later, only after having read M.O. Mathai’s treatises on Nehru; Mathai should know for he was the Catholic private secretary for Nehru for a decade or so) a notorious womanizer. It was not only Mrs. Mountbatten that he slept with on a regular basis while our jawans were dying on battle fields in the north-east and in Kashmir; he used to sleep with each and every woman he could lay his hands on. Thus, he had left a chain of bastards one of whom had been delivered in a Catholic nunnery in Bangalore. In the mean time, his sidekick, one Krishna Menon, became the Minister of Defense. First thing he did was dismantle the Ichhapore Gun Factory and turned it into a coffee making machine factory. He was a communist and he loved the Chinese more than he loved Indians.

Prabhupada was quite discreet; we know now, for he did not divulge to us at the time that Nehru finally died of syphilis (exactly like the communist leader Lenin of Russia) and not a bullet wound on the battle front. Prabhupada, however, told us in detail all the harms Nehru did to the Hindus of India, all the insults that he had heaped on them during his reign.

Nehru used to brag of his non-Hindu upbringing. He used to say openly that he was brought up as a Mohammedan, educated as a westerner; it was only by accident that he was born a Hindu. It is now known that he was born in a house in the red-light district of Allahabad, where his father Motilal used to ply a brothel-keeper’s trade. No one wants to talk of this dark side of Nehru’s upbringing. On the other hand, it is said openly, wrongly of course, that he was born in the Anand Bhavan, which was not even owned by Moti Lal at the time Nehru was born.

However, the few little details that we learnt from Prabhupada opened our eyes and I returned home very depressed. I was even more depressed to think that our people in India were singing all kinds of fulsome obituaries for this man who was worse than a traitor to the Hindus, the overwhelming majority of India. What was wrong? The next few years showed us all that was wrong! His daughter, in order to create differences between the Hindus and the Sikhs, the fighting arm of the Hindus since generations, attacked the sacred temple at Hari-Mandir Sahib in Amritsar. She had to pay for the crime with her life and event-ually, as we have all seen, our gods saw to it that the dynasty was totally destroyed for the sins of Nehru, now a dog in Sweden!

Re-incarnation is a lot of content-less nonsense, in my opinion. I don’t think that there is any abiding self, or soul, that migrates from living being to living being. What tickles me is the really fanciful notion that the man responsible for the Himalayan Blunder (and scores of other blunders) ends up as a dog in Sweden. Why Sweden? What sin has Sweden committed? Why not Pakistan? I don’t know. Maybe that Swedish dog continued to be reincarnated and finally ended up as Musharraf’s pet in Pakistan.

BTW, the book, Himalayan Blunder by Brigadier John P. Dalvi was banned by the Indian government when it was published in 1969. Thankfully in the age of the internets (or should that be the interwebs?), censorship and banning is meaningless. “Satya Meva Jayate” — Truth Alone Prevails — is India’s motto. The Internet is helping significantly in making that happen.

The most interesting part is “His daughter, in order to create differences between the Hindus and the Sikhs, the fighting arm of the Hindus since generations, attacked the sacred temple at Hari-Mandir Sahib in Amritsar.” Overwhelmed. The Khalistan movement/Bhrindanwale were all maya I guess.

Can anybody ask this great soul what Jinnah reincarnated as?

yoda

I simply can’t understand this kind of posthumous trashing, esp in our times. I mean, how do we treat the really evil guys if this is how we treat the somewhat good.

I can understand how Prabhupada said what he did – it’s just an anglecized version of the Hindu Garuda Purana to talk about how they’re reborn.

Prabhupada did some good work in the West (not here) esp feeding the homeless/addicts in NY, but HRHK movement wasn’t/isn’t very welcoming of Hindu Indians, even in his time.

And syphilis, tertiary or otherwise, is common enough from Van Gogh to Nietzsche, Hitler to Idi Amin.

http://www.deeshaa.org Atanu Dey

Yoda,

Are you criticizing HRHK after all? That is not consistent with your professed position on Nehru. Is Nehru above criticism but Prabhupada is not?

http://www.psychicmuse.com yoda

Of course. If HRHK post their ‘professed position’ on their News Network, those of us reading it can reject it based on the ‘do unto others’ law – they’ve not been saints either to be casting the first stone at Nehru.

(And beyond that it’s all perspective: if he be dog, so be it in a dog-loving country like Sweden rather than on the streets of India. lol:)

http://www.psychicmuse.com yoda

“Is Nehru above criticism but Prabhupada is not?”

If the pot’s calling the kettle black … I didn’t see Nehru’s criticism of Prabhupada or wouldn’t have played devil’s advocate (in this case, canine).

I think Nehru stands criticized as a swedish dog. But he was doing what most educated hindu indians are doing in their 20s these days – eating meat, drinking alcohol, chasing skirt, being western, etc.

It’s taken 60 yrs for the rest to catch up. Sweden may find their dog population booming in a few decades.:p

Vaidehi

I would be happier if nehru eternally burns in Hell.

>>most educated hindu indians…. chasing skirt, being western, etc<<

That is too sweeping an observation.

Sigh…what else can one expect from a nehru sycophant?

Vaidehi

The Hindus living in anti Hindu Bangladesh told me it was Sri.Prabhupada’s Hare Krishna
launched therein , which gave them the much needed fillip to celebrate Hindu festivals including Durga Puja .

All said & done , Prabhupada chanted the name of Lord Krishna.

Unlike more British than the Brits nehru.

http://psychicmuse.blogspot.com/ yoda

Well, too bad you won’t get your wish – Nehru’s living it up in a cool Sweden.:D

> Sigh…what else can one expect from a nehru sycophant?

What can one expect from someone who can’t read an opposing view without reaching for a personal attack?
*shrugs*
(I’ve done the same in many debates, Vaidehi, so don’t take it to heart. But it had to be said.:)

We don’t have to celebrate durga puja here to prove our hinduness, so maybe Prabhupada’s fillip was less than Nehru’s fillip here … and so we have a different perspective, k?

They’re all different expressions of Indians who had to deal with two two cultures. Like ourselves.